Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what total amount his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) the Government Car and Despatch Agency and (b) other car hire in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.

I refer my hon. Friend to the answers given by the then Secretary of State for Transport, the former Member for Bolton West (Ruth Kelly) on 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 116WS; by the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the former Member for Gillingham (Paul Clark) on 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 78WS; and, by the then Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) on 28 October 2010, Official Report, column 23WS.